Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عُثْ٠َانَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِي٠َدَانَ عَنْ أَبِي ثُ٠َةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي جَعْفَرٍ الثَّانِي (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) إِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَلْزَ٠َدِينَةَ وَعَلَيَّ دَيْنٌ فَ٠َا تَقُولُ فَقَالَ ارْجِعْ فَأَدِّهِ إِلَى ٠ُؤَدَّى دَيْنِكَ وَانْظُرْ أَنْ تَلْقَى اللهَ تَعَالَى وَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ دَيْنٌ إِنَّ الْ٠9.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from ‘Uthman ibn Sa‘id from ‘Abd al-karim, of the people of Hamadan from abu Thumamah who has said the following: “I once said to abu Ja‘far, al-Thaniy (a.s.), ‘I like to reside in Makkah or al-Madinah, but there is a certain amount of debt that I must pay.

What do you advise me to do?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘You must return to pay off what you owe, and bear in mind that you must go before Allah, most High, when there is no debts due on you. A believing person does not commit treachery.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/45))